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The "Hall of Names" at the Yad Vashem Holocaust Memorial in Jerusalem.
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JERUSALEM (EJP)---More than 700 educators from across the globe will participate next week in the largest educators’ conference in Israel on Holocaust.
The 3-day international conference, “Teaching the Shoah: Fighting Racism and Prejudice” will provide hundreds of educators with the tools necessary to deal with the challenges of teaching the Holocaust in their countries.
It will take place at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem and the Jerusalem International Convention Center.
Participants from 52 countries as varied as Rwanda, South Africa, Poland, Germany, Greece, Turkey, China, Japan, Korea, The United Kingdom, Brazil, Mexico, Panama, the Ukraine, Serbia, Australia and the United States will attend the conference which will start next Monday.
The central theme of the gathering will deal with teaching the Holocaust in a multi-cultural society.
The conference, which will serve as a forum for dialogue among educators dealing with the Holocaust, is to address three topics: racism and anti-Semitism in the 19th and 20th centuries, Holocaust education in a multi-cultural classroom, and the legacy of the survivors for celebrating Israel in its 60th year.
Participants from around the world will conduct 164 educational workshops in English, Spanish, Russian and French, during the conference.
Topics will also include teaching the Holocaust in Rwanda, the challenge of Holocaust education for students with a Muslim background, using the diary of Anne Frank to combat prejudice in the classroom, teaching the Holocaust in Germany in a multi-cultural classroom, Greek students’ attitudes toward others and teaching the Holocaust and genocide in Europe today - the challenge of anti-Zionism and anti-Semitism.
"As a result of the pedagogical questions raised by hundreds of teachers from around the world who come to us for seminars, the need arose to place the theme of Holocaust education in a multi-cultural society at the core of the conference," said Avner Shalev, Yad Vashem chairman.
Among the speakers at the conference will be Yuli Tamir, Israeli Minister of Education, former minister Natan Sharansky, Rabbi Israel Meir Lau, chief rabbi of Tel Aviv, and Professor Yehuda Bauer, academic advisor to Yad Vashem.
